Positive news in Allston

[Nancy Grilk]

Congratulations and a big thank you to many, many Boston University
students and alumni who descended on Ringer Park yesterday for Day of
Service activities. Working with the Boston Parks Department and the
two masterminds of the whole project, D-14 Community Service Officers
Sgt. Mike O' Hara and Jerry Ajemian, The BU crew picked up trash,
raked and bagged leaves and spread mulch along the path at the back of
the park. And they aren't done, more mulch will be put down, dead
trees cleared and more. Just one example of positive things that
happen in our community when people work together.

Again thank you to all involved for a job well done, Ringer Park is a
better place for this effort.

Bob Pessek, Allston

Photo top left: Far left, Jerry Ajemian and center, Sgt. Mike O' Hara
and co-workers.

[Paula and Robert Alexander]

Hello all,
 
It's wonderful to see how many volunteers are turning out this year to help clean up 'gritty Allston'.  Our sincerest thanks to all the kind folks at Boston University and others for doing such a fantastic job.
 
On behalf of the Friends of the Honan-Allston Library, I want to thank Harvard University and the Harvard Business School, the Earthwatch Institute, and so many others who pitched in last Friday in connection with  Boston Shines to clean the Honan-Allston Library gardens, Smith and Hooker Parks, Thomas Gardner and Jackson-Mann Schools and other areas of Allston-Brighton.  The Harvard Gazette took lots of photos of the workers which can be viewed on-line soon.   I snapped a few photos of the lovely daffodils that have just bloomed in the front of the Honan-Allston Library which was weeded and trash picked up by the many volunteers. 
 
We hope that some day rather than refer to Allston as "gritty", it will be known as clean and awesome Allston.
 
Yours truly,
 
Paula Alexander
Friends of the Honan-Allston Library
 
 
 

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[Nancy Grilk]

Hi Paula, Great job around the library.  From a resident of clean and awesome Allston

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